Attached Link: http://www.richardrosenman.com/dofpro.htm

It's also great and appropriate for single frame renders. The combination of AO or IBL and DOF can produce way-cool look and feel.

The author says:

"Most 3D Computer Graphics applications are easily capable of producing depth maps along with the rendered image."

The depth map is a black/white bitmap of the frame, in which the grayscale value of a given pixel translates mathematically to the distance from the camera.

1. Does anyone know if Poser can produce the depth map?
2. Has anyone worked with this plug-in, and what is your experience with it.

Thanks,
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Hi, well I render in vue which makes a depth map, and I have purchased that photoshop plug in. I use it on my PC as it's not mac compatible. It works very well. Love esther

I don't see its utility... Poser 6 has a DOF function that, for me, works great...

Could save time, blajfeld, if in rendering a massive animation, the primary render would be speeded up tremendously by not having to calculate DOF. Then, you process your folder of frames for DOF using the plug-in. Also, you might "change your mind" about the intensity of DOF in one portion of your film. You would still have the raw frames un-DOFed to go back to, and you could then reprocess for DOF just for that segment, without having to re-render the full scene. Same with a single frame. Much faster to try out different DOF effects in this plugin than to rerender entire scene with different Poser DOF settings. ::::: Opera :::::

Bryce can render depth maps too, and terragen with a plugin and lightwave.

Attached Link: http://www.stewreo.de/poser/dof_tutorial.html

Ah... Understood. :)

DOF Pro works very well with Poser. To repeat/clarify the advantages mentioned above, it is much, much faster than using Poser's own dof, plus it's not ultra grainy. Also note that version 3 will be able to do motion blur :D Oh, and the price ain't bad, either.

Thanks for the link! I've been using depth maps for post DOF a few times, but without plugin support (just select by color on the depth map, then blur), so it ended up rather crude. Unfortunately, I don't use Photoshop. Does anyone know if there's a standalone program or Gimp plugin that does the same?

DOF Pro works in alot of other programs besides Photoshop. Go here for a list of the many free programs that can use Photoshop plugins.

Well, I didn't know so many programs work with Photoshop plugins now. I guess I'll give it a try, then. The feature list seems really impressive, and I've been yearning for a decent way of adding DOF.

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